“Should You Really Follow Your Heart?” October 14
“Follow your heart.”
It may be one of the most common pieces of advice in our culture.
Trust your feelings.
Do what seems right to you.
Follow your desires.
Be true to yourself.
But what if your heart isn’t always telling you the truth?
What if something can feel completely right—and still take you in exactly the wrong direction?
In Jeremiah’s day, God rebuked His people because they had refused His Word and instead “followed the dictates of their hearts.”
And the result was not freedom, happiness, or fulfillment.
It was rebellion against God.
That creates an important question for every believer:
If I shouldn’t simply follow my heart, how do I know which desires to trust?
After all, God does give believers new hearts.
And Psalm 37 even says He gives us the desires of our hearts.
So how do those truths fit together?
Today we’ll look at why our hearts can still mislead us, what happens as God changes our desires, and why His Word—not our feelings—must remain the final authority in our lives.
We’ll also look at God’s discipline of His children, the blessing of godly friendship, and what we can learn from the way Paul handled the need to offer constructive criticism.
